Installing Nimble Streamer

Please notice, that Nimble Streamer is only available for 64-bit systems (including IBM POWER8).

If you want to
add pre-configured
Nimble Streamer instance to your WMSPanel account, please read
this article
for details.
It allows automating Nimble Streamer installation and set up process when building large deployments.

Register server in WMSPanel

sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up.

You can automate registration by adding the following parameters: -u for user name and -p for password, e.g.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword

If you have pre-configured Nimble Streamer instance, you may import existing settings using the following command.
Read this article
for details.
Please
back up
your rules.conf before using this method to avoid accidental
damages.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword --apply-rules-conf

Restart server:

sudo service nimble start
Server will be visible in the panel immediately

Install Nimble Streamer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 / CentOS 6

Sign up

Before installing the server, you need to get WMSPanel account. Just
sign up
to get your account if you still don't have one.

Register server in WMSPanel

sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up.

You can automate registration by adding the following parameters: -u for user name and -p for password, e.g.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword

If you have pre-configured Nimble Streamer instance, you may import existing settings using the following command.
Read this article
for details.
Please
back up
your rules.conf before using this method to avoid accidental
damages.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword --apply-rules-conf

Restart server:

sudo service nimble start
Server will be visible in the panel immediately

Install Nimble Streamer for Ubuntu

Sign up

Before installing the server, you need to get WMSPanel account. Just
sign up
to get your account if you still don't have one.

Register server in WMSPanel

sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up.

You can automate registration by adding the following parameters: -u for user name and -p for password, e.g.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword

If you have pre-configured Nimble Streamer instance, you may import existing settings using the following command.
Read this article
for details.
Please
back up
your rules.conf before using this method to avoid accidental
damages.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword --apply-rules-conf

Restart server:

sudo service nimble restart
Server will be visible in the panel immediately

Install Nimble Streamer for Debian

Sign up

Before installing the server, you need to get WMSPanel account. Just
sign up
to get your account if you still don't have one.

Register server in WMSPanel

/usr/bin/nimble_regutil
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up.

You can automate registration by adding the following parameters: -u for user name and -p for password, e.g.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword

If you have pre-configured Nimble Streamer instance, you may import existing settings using the following command.
Read this article
for details.
Please
back up
your rules.conf before using this method to avoid accidental
damages.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword --apply-rules-conf

Restart server:

service nimble restart
Server will be visible in the panel immediately

Install Nimble Streamer for Windows

Sign up

Before installing the server, you need to get WMSPanel account. Just
sign up
to get your account if you still don't have one.

Troubleshooting

You may get message like this:

"The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.
Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.
Press any key to continue . . ."

Install Nimble Streamer server

Register server in WMSPanel

Run in terminal:sudo /usr/local/nimble/bin/nimble_regutil
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up.

You can automate registration by adding the following parameters: -u for user name and -p for password, e.g.
sudo/usr/local/nimble/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword

If you have pre-configured Nimble Streamer instance, you may import existing settings using the following command.
Read this article
for details.
Please
back up
your rules.conf before using this method to avoid accidental
damages.
sudo/usr/local/nimble/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword --apply-rules-conf

Register server in WMSPanel

/usr/bin/nimble_regutil
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up.

You can automate registration by adding the following parameters: -u for user name and -p for password, e.g.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword

If you have pre-configured Nimble Streamer instance, you may import existing settings using the following command.
Read this article
for details.
Please
back up
your rules.conf before using this method to avoid accidental
damages.
sudo/usr/bin/nimble_regutil -u test@yourcompany.com -p mypassword --apply-rules-conf

Restart server:

service nimble restart
Server will be visible in the panel immediately

Set up streaming scenarios

You may now can go through the following setup instruction to configure your server:

Upgrading Nimble Streamer

Having Nimble Streamer installed, you may get the latest server version by following
easy upgrade procedure
for your OS. Make update and get latest available features.
You can
read release notes
with description of major changes in the product.